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Are You Willing to Pay the Price Spiritually? Perspective from RES.

As long as you’re human, usually you will have to pay a price for what you get.

Today I’d like to officially set in motion a new theme at this blog: Pay the Price. My perspective comes from sessions facilitated with Rosetree Energy Spirituality (RES).

RES is a mind-body-spirit field that helps people solve problems with energy READING skills and energy HEALING skills that work especially well in the Age of Energy. Two of my specialties as an RES practitioner are Empath Coaching (with the system of Empath Empowerment®) and Enlightenment Coaching (helping people to move into Householder Enlightenment and also continue rapid spiritual evolution after crossing that threshold).

Helping people to pay the price has come up in all four of these areas. Why?

Earth Economics = Pay the Price

For most things we humans attempt to gain, we must pay the price. Often that price is hidden. Yet we pay it nonetheless.

Earth School is structured that way.

All the examples in this post come from my work with RES clients. Work done here on earth.

Energy READING Skills in RES — that means all 15 stages of energetic literacy beginning with Stage 3 skill — can show you about the price to be paid. If you know such a thing exists and are willing to admit it to yourself.

Energy HEALING Skills in RES — very often, I’ll help a client to move out STUFF that is related (directly or indirectly) to Paying the Price for something.

Empath Empowerment® Skills come at a price. Including that they take a bit of time to acquire. Just because you were born talented as an empath, you can’t just snap your fingers and bam! You’re a skilled empath.

Bottom line? Blog-Buddies, if you care about emotional and spiritual growth, then get this memo. Whatever we desire, whatever we pursue, whatever is given to us…

We Must Always Pay the Price

Many things about life on earth have changed vibrationally in this Age of Awakening (the subject of my upcoming book, “The New Strong“). However, this principle is more true than ever for those of us who live now.

Sometimes it’s called “Paying your dues.”

Yet how many motivational speakers, New Age celebrities or Christian televangelists are willing to admit this in public?

2. How does the reality differ? (Including the price being paid one day at a time.)

3. What must a person do in order to pursue exceptional physical attractiveness?

4. What about maintaining those looks over the decades? What price must be paid over time?

5. And what price will be paid when those looks are lost? (Because youth is beauty, not necessarily aging.)

6. If you take a multi-incarnational approach to notable physical attractiveness, what would a soul have to do (probably for several lifetimes) in order to be born gorgeous?

Marriage. An Example of Pay the Price

One of you Blog-Buddies might wish to write a guest post on paying your dues to get married, to stay married.

The hidden cost of a “good” marriage. Questions might include:

1. Why does marriage seem so wonderful to the person who aims for it?

2. How can the reality differ? (Including the price that might have to be paid one day at a time.) Is marriage worth pursuing regardless of the cost?

3. What must a person do in order to pursue marriage as a main goal in life?

4. Are there relationship skills that could be learned (i.e. another price that might be paid) to increase the likelihood of an authentically happy marriage?

Wealth. An Example of Pay the Price

One of you Blog-Buddies might wish to write a guest post on paying your dues with money.

Of course there’s a hidden cost for wealth. Questions might include:

1. Why does it seem so wonderful?

2. How does the reality differ? (Including the price being paid one day at a time.)

3. What must a person do in order to pursue wealth?

4. How likely is it that one previous incarnation pursuing wealth will be enough for achieving birth into a wealthy family?

5. Which life skills might be part of the price that you pay for financial success?

Pay the Price: An Example.

From Blog-Buddy IRENE:

My friend studied to become a massage therapist. There are many hundreds of massage therapists already in his city. Some are struggling, some are booked out three months in advance.

While he’s doing fine now, he struggled to build his practice right after he graduated. From my observation, that’s part of the learning process, part of learning skills, part of, to use the words from these comments, the price he needed to pay as he developed skill and experience both at the practice of massage therapy and at business.

Who else has an example, Blog-Buddies. Some of you may have many! Well, please comment below. Let’s bring more spiritual truth into this world.

Fascinating post, Rose. “Paying the Price” might be considered a western approach. But as I mentioned prior, the ancients said “all arises from self effort.”

Another concept that comes to mind – tapas. While often translated to mean austerities that’s just one way to pay. Tapas actually means warming – actions we can do to warm or prepare the way for results.

When I hear the phrase “paying the price”, I have to remember that it does NOT mean all the puritan work ethic misunderstandings I absorbed growing up like unreasonably hard work, sacrifice and suffering are virtues while pleasure and enjoying what I do are sins.

I definitely agree with the principle here. If I want something in my life, I have to do the work to bring it here. Wishing is not enough.

I have a lot of talents, each of which I could develop more. I could practice piano or voice to perfection instead of to “good enough”; I could practice drawing until I could reproduce almost anything; I could learn all kinds of jewelry-making techniques instead of making it up as I go.

IRENE, DAVID B, KIRA, IRENE, JESSE, and AMANDA, thank you so much for these insights.

DAVID B, related to your Comments #3 and 4, you and I share life paths where a portion of our spiritual background once involved doing tapas in the form of meditation and long courses with “rounding” TM-style.

Other Blog-Buddies have, too. Yet how many of us ever had a clue about that “warming” aspect you’ve mentioned? Ironic! Since the path we were on at the time was, supposedly, to help us evolve spiritually as householders rather than renunciates.

For any householder, and especially for those of us in Householder Enlightenment — or seeking it — the role of paying your dues, or taking action, or warming — this is part of how to win today’s “Guru Game.”

Gladys has achieved an exceptional degree of success as a writer, and after working on just one book.

Well, what separates her from thousands, perhaps millions, of writers who also dedicate themselves just as diligently to writing professionally?

And for more years than Gladys has done!

And at much greater personal cost!

And even when their commitment was of the “struggling artist” variety, rather than the enviably position of Gladys, as a comfortably well off writing novice with no financial woes. Golly, she could avoid an office more expensive than her local Starbucks!

Most likely, Gladys has spiritually paid the price for her current success in MANY lifetimes, including many years (or even lifetimes) as a writer.

This helped her to have the good karma in this lifetime to hire a GOOD writing coach, in contrast to many who are not really good writing coaches.

I suspect that many of the people who serve as writing coaches today are NOT necessarily very good at it. For sure, writing coaches and similar consultants to indie publishers are more likely to make money than the writers — whether self-taught or proudly gaining their credentials from educational instutitions or living at writer’s colonies, etc.

I wish more people understood this theme of paying the price spiritually.

Because it’s so easy to read a comment like yours, AMANDA, or read a website, or hear an acceptance speech when somebody just won a coveted prize…

And think, “Yep. That person earned it. XYZ is all a person has to do to win at this game.”

Confusing notions like ths keep the experts and coaches in business.

You may personally know materially unsuccessful writers, singers, dancers, models, actors, athletes, artists, photographers, meditation teachers, Reiki masters, aspiring chefs, day traders, real estate agents, interior decorators, and others. After a while, they either adjusted and found other sources of income or they kept on pursuing their “dream.”

I have known many, many.

But do have I seen people like this on TV or read about them in newspapers? Not really. Have you?

As an Empath Coach, it’s very important to me that every single person I teach can gain skills that really work, Empath Empowerment® skills, to be precise.

As an Enlightenment Coach, everybody I work with can move forward on his or her path to Enlightenment, and progress more rapidly (I believe), even if that person hasn’t paid enough of a price over the lifetimes to move into Enlightenment this time around.

BTW, I still havent had that honor in my own country. But Im paying the price to be a spiritual teacher and, it turns out, have been paying the price to found Rosetree Energy Spirituality (RES). As part of that, I write the books I believe to help people.

For all that, I’ve been paying the price (in this incarnation and others as well). And I’m winning.

KIRA, your series of Comments #10-14 is really important, as well as so characteristically honest.

Being an amateur — one who loves to do something — is an honorable path for any person.

I think it’s a very post-postmodern thing that so many of us think, “If I’m going to do this, I must become rich and famous.”

And society conspires, media conspire, experts selling their services — all of them indirectly conspire to persuade us, “Doing things just for the love of it isn’t enough. You must become rich and famous.”

I also find that I deal with karma one topic at a time… as in, for these few years I’m learning about relationships, for these few years I’m learning more about creativity, for these few years I’m learning about self-reliance… and so on.

You are creating something so very new, and creating a market for it, and developing the capacity for people to understand what you do…. It’s like the normal channels of success won’t deliver, as much as you need to create your own channels too.

Personally, I find jealousy from others baffling and I realise that others may not understand what I’ve experienced to be as independent and self-assured as I am. (These are my main “wins” this lifetime, I reckon.)

Much love and respect to you Rose. There’s fewer women working in science and maths than I feel there should be, so thank-you for being a role model for me: you’re super creative, self-determined, brainy, balanced, worldly and independent.

A one-lady research department in a field that doesn’t get government funding.

It’s when I get a new opportunity that I remember to commit to aspects of me that I know can hold me back.

The worst thing is to get some good karma (opportunity) and not be able to roll with it, because you’ve not developed the skills or sense of self worth (after paying back heavy karma, for example) to really embody that experience.

I already feel successful by doing my job, helping clients, bringing out new knowledge, training RES practitioners, earning a good but not greedy living at the “family business,” and having the time of my life at this blog.

There’s a very good speech about being an amateur in a movie I watched with my favorite great aunts years ago—I wish I remembered the title. It was about a church choir and its director. There was a diva (I don’t mean the complimentary meaning) in the group who eventually stormed out, and her parting words were, “You’re just a bunch of amateurs!”

The choir were stunned into disheartened silence, so the director told them about how the word amateur means doing it for the love of doing it and that sometimes it’s better to be an amateur.

Aha! Bing is my friend! The movie is A Christmas Without Snow, and here is the quote (from the character Ephraim Adams, played by John Houseman):

“Mrs. Burns is right, of course; you are amateurs, unlike certain pseudo-professionals like myself who insist on slave wages. Your voluntary and steadfast attendance at these rehearsals fully qualifies you for any definition of the word “amateur”. What Mrs. Burns and many others are wrong about is the meaning of the word, which has to do with motivation, not quality. Remember “amo, amat, amas”, the Latin verb “to love”. The meaning of “amateur” is “he or she who does a thing for the love of it”. There is no higher reason for singing than the love of doing it. In that respect, you do qualify as amateurs. And I salute you for it.”

About forgiveness: I have always found it difficult to hold things against others because I tended to understand where they were coming from, so minor slights were almost always instantly forgiven.

Certain major things bothered me a lot, but all it eventually took was for the other person to treat me like a person for the forgiveness to kick in. It wasn’t intellectual forgiveness, it was emotional forgiveness; it kind of happened before I even really thought about it.

The person I had a hard time forgiving was myself, for several things. I did have to make a conscious effort, but that effort was basically seeing myself as another person, which meant my automatic habit of understanding what could have caused the mistakes made kicked in and then the forgiveness followed.

As with many of my experiences, I don’t necessarily recommend that way of doing it. I agree that intellectual forgiveness is not the same as an emotional releasing of the grudge, and that either kind is not the same as removing STUFF.

I would guess that removing STUFF first can make the emotional release happen.

I think I know the answer to this, but I just have to ask anyway—Rose, did you really mean that forgiveness (of the deluded sort) is *worse* than resentment or revenge killing? Because that’s how comment 49 is worded.

“Forgiveness like that is certainly worse than fanning flames of resentment. Or, say, killing that person in order to get even.”

I’ve had 2 dreams that convinced me I’d had past lives, but the little I’ve done with investigating them convinced me that I don’t need to know the details (it seems to be part of my “a reading is not a healing” block; I got very little info).

So I’m okay with knowing almost nothing about almost all of them, but it also means I have very little idea how I’ve paid for my charmed life.

Those priests, those spokespeople for Jesus Christ (supposedly), who turned a blind eye to the abuse that was going on in your family, dear LILIAN?

You bet, I think their bestowal of forgiveness was rank, revolting, evil.

Catholic priests, who might often have guilted their parishoners over some trifling “sin of omission”! If your parish priest was charged with guiding his flock, with protecting the sheep and especially the lambs… and then he granted absolution to your mother, week in and week out… ach, as you might say. This horrifying behavior brings tears to my eyes.

I’m so sorry you had to go through this. I’m so glad it’s over now. I’m so glad that STUFF can always, always, always be healed. (And for you, LILIAN, much of it has been.)

So what do I find so distressing about sweet, beautiful, “Fixes everything” forgiveness?

The premise is false. The promise is usually a lie. In my experience, anyway.

You know, when RES clients come to me, I get to read their auras, or do Skilled Empath Merges, or facilitate their cutting cords of attachment or facilitate some Soul Energy Awakening Hypnosis(R). And…

O-mi-Dear-God, the atrocities that are denied, or distorted, or cemented in place through “Forgiveness”!

The horrible behaviors that are sometimes indirectly encouraged because the good wife or loving husband or dutiful child forgives and forgives and forgives… and thereby allows something quite disgusting to continue.

Behavior that does not HAVE to continue, except that the person being treated so badly keeps forgiving again and again, thereby meekly coming back for more.

With DAVID B’s state of consciousness he can do a little something, that sounds like an activity any human can do… and then he will attain “true forgiveness that comes with an energetic release and IS profoundly, permanently healing.”

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